Tag: Victorian era
‘A Fair Field and No Favour’
Jo Spiller admires the grit and fortitude of Sophia Jex-Blake, the Edinburgh Seven, and their campaign to secure women a University education.
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The case of Winnie Verloc
Susan Jones is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. Here she explores Conrad’s treatment of Winnie Verloc from ‘The Secret Agent’–one of the writer’s most deadly protagonists.
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Subtle subversions of Victorian gender conventions
Laura Witz illustrates how one of Scotland’s most prolific writers, Margaret Oliphant, challenged 19th century society’s expectations of women via an unexpected route–the romance novel.
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‘Lucretia Borgia or only a boarding school miss’?
Madeleine Smith’s trial for the murder of her lover, Emile L’Angelier, in 1857, combined those twin Victorian obsessions, sex and death, in a way that not only led to questions about womanhood in general, but about the whole fabric of society.
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